Tim Harris

“Land-based resource management works best when you build from operational reality, not policy abstracts. I own 20 acres in Greenland adjacent to 150 acres of conservation land. That position teaches you fast what works and what doesn’t. Here’s what I’d prioritize: Water: Treat it as the throughline it is—connect agricultural runoff, municipal discharge, and aquifer depletion in one policy framework. Most NH water issues aren’t siloed; they’re cascading. Fund watershed councils that actually own accountability, not advisory boards. Open space and parks: The model should shift from acquisition-as-mission to land stewarding-as-practice. Fund the use and maintenance of what we have before grabbing more. The real gap: We underfund the people who do the work. A land manager on-site beats a conference of planners every time. Start there.

I’ve got deeper thoughts on this layered into some platform work I’ve done. If your group’s serious, I’d rather talk than survey-answer. That’s where the real ideas live. I’m not running, but I’d genuinely love to dig into this with you—it’s a question that matters.”

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“On vaccines specifically: The evidence on vaccine safety and efficacy for preventing serious disease is robust. That’s not ideology—that’s data. I support informed choice built on actual science, not theater. People deserve real information, not Instagram arguments. On the process: This is where it gets real. Scientists and policymakers should collaborate, but “collaboration” right now often means scientists get consulted then ignored, or worse, politicized. That’s useless. What I’d actually support: Transparent, accessible communication from public health officials—no talking-down, no message-testing that sounds hollow

Funding for hyperlocal health education through actual community members, not top-down campaigns

Accountability when agencies get it wrong (they will). Space for legitimate questions without lumping skeptics into one category. The real issue: We’ve eroded trust in institutions faster than we can rebuild it. A vaccine policy that works lives or dies on whether people believe the messenger, not just the message.”

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“This one I can actually speak from doing, not just thinking. My first operational plank is ocean cleanup— One: Corporate interest is real but misdirected. Companies want the optics. What works is partnering them into operational accountability—not marketing. If a corporation funds ocean cleanup, they own measurable outcomes, not a press release. Two: Flooding and snowpack aren’t separate problems. They’re the same system. A resilience policy that doesn’t connect watershed management to marine cleanup to agricultural runoff is performance art. You need the full chain. Three: Start with existing capacity. NH has fishing communities, marine infrastructure, and people who know the water. Build with them, not around them. What I’d actually support: Tax incentives for companies that partner into operational solutions with measurable outcomes, Funding for coastal community adaptation (not relocation subsidies—resilience infrastructure), Marine research tied directly to recovery metrics. The ocean cleanup work isn’t separate from flood policy. It’s the same conversation about systems thinking.”

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“AI panic is largely manufactured gatekeeping, not genuine risk assessment.

Look at publishing: the industry uses AI in PR platforms, contact systems, distribution networks. But they criminalize authors using Claude to edit. They’ll tell you AI invalidates human work while using it to maximize profit and control access to tools. Remove all AI from that ecosystem and it collapses. They won’t do it because they don’t believe their own panic. They believe AI democratizes access to things they used to own. For NH policy: Stop asking whether to “address AI impacts.” Ask who benefits from the fear. Manufacturing and healthcare are already integrating AI—that’s not stopping. Education needs people who understand what AI actually does (pattern-match training data) versus the mythology (genuine reasoning). Workforce transition happens whether you fund it or not. Data centers: should be ran by universities not billionaires through their puppet politician.. like a utility … needs not wants. The actual policy question: Are you managing transition for people, or just managing the narrative for institutions protecting their gatekeeping?”

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“Stop selling the transition narrative and copy what’s actually working: Denmark runs 80% wind through cooperative ownership models—not billionaire-backed utilities. Germany built distributed solar on residential roofs, not mega-farms. For NH: You have coastal wind potential, forest biomass, residual hydro capacity. Map what you actually have. Build cooperatively—communities own stakes in the infrastructure that powers them. That model works because people maintain what they own. Jobs aren’t “green jobs.” They’re real jobs: manufacturing turbine components (localized production beats shipping), installation and maintenance crews, grid management specialists, building retrofitting. These exist in countries doing this now. Pay starts at living wage because the work is skilled and ongoing. The frame: Energy transition isn’t about belief. It’s infrastructure that works. Denmark and Germany didn’t bet on ideolog.

NH has the same option: map resources, build cooperative ownership, hire locally for the work, and stop treating energy as a political football. What’s working elsewhere works here too. Copy the operations, not the marketing.”

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